Work-life Management
Supportive Work Environment
Systems to Support Work-life Management
We have instituted systems to support employees who are working in various stages of their lives.
Childcare support system
Long-Term Care Assistance Program
*1 In-house Nursery School "SGH Kids Garden"
The SG Holdings Group has established the "SGH Kids Garden" an in-house Nursery School for the purpose of supporting early reinstatement of female employees after taking maternity leave or childcare leave and supporting the balance of employees work and home lives. At the nursery school, we provide a safe environment and education at the same level as a licensed nursery school, to support Group employees returning to work, and to help support the spouses of employees who also wish to advance in society.
*2 Distribution of Childcare Support Guidebooks
We have published the "Working Papa and Mama Guide," our guidebook for supporting childcare (one version for employees, another for managers), detailing the support systems the company offers for childbirth and child-rearing. We want to create an environment where people are comfortable continuing to work. In recent years, to encourage male employees to take time off for child-rearing, we newly added pages dedicated to supporting childcare participation by male employees
*3 Distribution of Nursing Care Handbook
We publish and distribute a handbook to provide information on preparation and systems for caregiving.
We support our employees to continue working even when their family members need nursing care by informing them the support systems to balance work and nursing care to prepare for “someday” or “what if”.
Raising the Efficiency of Back-office Operations
The SG Holdings Group is promoting the efficiency of back-office operations throughout the Group by introducing technologies such as RPA*1, AI-OCR*2, chatbots and generative AI, with SG Systems, the Group company that oversees IT, playing a central role.
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*1RPA: Robotic Process Automation, where software robots automate operations/processes.
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*2OCR: Optical Character Recognition. Technology for reading written and printed text with a scanner and converting this into digital text.
Utilization of Paid Leave
The Group monitors the utilization rate of annual paid leave every year and implements measures to promote its utilization. By improving the utilization rate of annual paid leave, we will create a more worker-friendly working environment, which will lead to increased employee motivation and greater organizational strength.
Organizational Strengthening Leave (For Strength Leave)
SG Holdings requires managers to take “For Strength Leave,” which is a planned extended leave of seven consecutive days or more. Establishing periods of absence for managers in the workplace promotes the development of subordinates, builds a system for delegating duties, and strengthens organizational capabilities. In addition, we offer the employees utilizing leave the opportunity to improve their work-life balance and upgrade their skills by taking extended leave.
Employee Benefit Systems
In addition to the social insurance systems required by law, we have various other employee welfare measures in place.
The SGH Family Welfare Association provides welfare services to employees of Group companies in Japan, offering benefits, insurance services, as well as various discount services and interactive events, based on three concepts to ensure that employees can work with a sense of security and live healthily and happily throughout their whole lives. In this way, by creating environments where employees feel a sense of fulfillment and promoting life support for employees and their families, our aim is to boost employee loyalty.
Further, we also operate the OB&OG Association for retirees and those who have stayed on post-retirement as commissioned employees, and are working to create connections with the Group through the publication of bulletins and the hosting of exchange meetings.
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*The hosting of group events was suspended from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2022 from the perspective of preventing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic